[Year 12 Its] New kid on the block

[Andrew Shortell]

Hi New kid on the block

Nice quibbles

I look forward to your dog's breakfast awards in SoD

Type was a little ambiguous but before we get too carried away you could
compare the exam base over the last 15 years and this exam stands up
quite well.

I did like the case study - someone's (Hi Stephen) hobby is well
explained.

The changeover question was a clearer question than in the past and the
answer was more obvious. It will be interesting to look at the stats on
correct answers to that Question

(if you haven't already done so then you should volunteer to mark SoD
papers next year. The meeting can often be very very lively. I
deliberately use the word volunteer because of the pay rate. Note that I
still do it!! It is the very best PD in town.)

Andrew Shortell
Braemar College
 
 
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Subject: [Year 12 Its] New kid on the block

Hi all.  Next year I'm taking IS/SoD (or whatever fond abbreviation will

be used) for the first time.

I've just had a look at the 2006 IS exam to get a feel for things.

Do IS people do exam post mortems?

Anyway, some ignorant thoughts...

One small quibble is the spelling of Shneiderman  I too only found out 
this year that there's no "c" after the "s".  (source - 
http://www.cs.umd.edu/~ben)

A2b and B10a refer to a "type of network".  I find the word "type" 
ambiguous: does it mean LAN/WAN or P2P/Client-server , or indeed
"Ethernet"?

BTW - Do IS teachers have a protocol for referring to exam questions ...

specifying the section, question number and subquestion's letter? I hope

you can understand which questions I'm referring to in the para above.

B13 - Is it my imagination or is the first dotpointed implementation 
option (running both systems at the same time) basically impossible? How

could 2 different control systems run the same system at the same time 
without causing chaos?  Or is that what the kids were supposed to point
out?

B17 - again, maybe it's my imagination or ignorance, or are objectives 2

and 3 mututally exclusive.  How can no more than 2 errors per month be 
recorded (objective 2) AND record all errors (objective 3)?  Something 
fishy?

Does objective 2 mean "no more than 2 errors per month will HAPPEN"? 
Otherwise, objective 2 as it stands means "Only record the first 2 
errors and ignore all the others"!

Cheers

Mark

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